Harness-buckle



ABEL E. BUELL, or wEs'rMoRELAND, NEW YORK.

rmrtivnss-BUCKLE.`

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,166, dated June 19, 1847.

' To all lwhom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ABEL B. BUELL, of the town of Westmoreland, in thecounty of Oneida and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedHarness- Buckle; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexedvvdrawings of the same making part of this specilication.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure l is a plan of the buckle showing the frame, or forward portion,and the jointed lever tongue, or rear portion, in connection with eachother, and in connection with thestrap fastened to the hame and to thetrace, the latter being shown by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of ditto.

The nature of my invention and improvement consists in combining withthe metallic frame, attached to the llame, a jointed lever tongue insuch a manner that as the draft is applied to the trace, it pressesagainst a cross bar of the jointed tongue and causes the rear end tomove inward and the forward end to move outward and to act as a lever inregard to the position of tongue so as to hold it rmly in position inthe aperture of the trace, the tongue being susceptible of disengagementfrom the trace in an instant by simply reversing the movement of therear end of the lever, in order to shorten or lengthen the traces; oralter the position of whatever article it is applied to. I construct mybuckle of any suitable metal, wrought or cast, in two partsa forward anda rear-the forward part called the frame, and the rear part called thejointed lever tongue, the latter being jointed to the former by twopivots, or journals, on which it vibrates. V

A is the frame cast or composed oftwo parallel side bars, an end bar,and a raised cross bar, attached to the hame by the strap represented bydotted lines, said frame being provided, if necessary, with loops andother appendages at the sides and ends. A A are the two side bars. A isthe end bar. A2 is the raised cross bar projected a convenientl distancebeyond the surface of said raised portion and the'base of the tongue,said cross bar A2 being cast with the side bars in the kmannerrepresented in the drawings, or in any more convenient way. The rearends of the side barsare not united, and are pierced kwith roundopenings to Vadmit the'pivots, or knobs, on the sidesy Of the triangularturning lever to which the tongue is attached.

The triangular jointed frame, or lever B, to which the inclined tongue Bis attached,

for connecting the trace with the before described frame, is made orcast in a form the side bars to receive the trace between resembling theletter A, the inclined tongue A B being formed on or connected vwith thelever at the apex thereof, and the trunnions, or knobs, or pivots B2 B2,on which it turns (in disengaging or engaging the tongue) on thetwoinclined sides of the lever and the cross bar B3, against which thepower is applied by the draft on the trace T for driving, the tongue Bthrough the trace and holding it lfirmly against the raised cross bar A2of the forward frame is cast near the lrear ends of the inclined sidebars B B,

which ends are turned upward and united by a raised cross bar B4, therebeing another cross bar B5 near the middle running parallel with the twobars just named and on a line with the pivots, and being thus arrangedfor the purpose of strengthening the said pivots.

A straight line drawn from the base of the tongue B to the end of theswingle-tree, or bar to which the trace is attached will come inside thesecond cross bar B3 aforesaid; therefore when the trace is carried fro-msaid tongue B outside the second cross bar B3 to the swingle tree anddrawn taut so end of the buckle in suehrlnanner with reference to theposition of the tonguelas Will hold the tongue rmly in position by the10 leverage of said rear end, theparts being constructed and arranged inthe manner described. V

Y Y ABEL B; BUELL.

` Witnesses: Y

A. ITIALHECK,r EDWIN KELLOGG.

